Definition: agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
Usage: farming is a strenuous life; there's no work on the land any more
Similar words: business, job, line, line of work, occupation
Definition: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Usage: he's not in my line of business
Synonyms: land, nation, country
Definition: the people who live in a nation or country
Usage: a statement that sums up the nation's mood; the news was announced to the nation; the whole country worshipped him
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: res publica, state, country, commonwealth, body politic, nation, land
Definition: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Usage: the state has elected a new president; African nations; students who had come to the nation's capitol; the country's largest manufacturer; an industrialized land
Similar words: political entity, political unit
Definition: a unit with political responsibilities
Synonyms: country, state, land
Definition: the territory occupied by a nation
Usage: he returned to the land of his birth; he visited several European countries
Similar words: territorial division, administrative district, administrative division
Definition: a district defined for administrative purposes
Synonyms: domain, demesne, land
Definition: territory over which rule or control is exercised
Usage: his domain extended into Europe; he made it the law of the land
Similar words: region
Definition: a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
Usage: penguins inhabit the polar regions
Synonyms: land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, dry land, earth
Definition: the solid part of the earth's surface
Usage: the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land; the earth shook for several minutes; he dropped the logs on the ground
Similar words: physical object, object
Definition: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
Usage: it was full of rackets, balls and other objects
Definition: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
Usage: the land had never been plowed; good agricultural soil
Similar words: physical object, object
Definition: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
Usage: it was full of rackets, balls and other objects
Synonyms: Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land
Definition: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
Similar words: industrialist
Definition: someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise
Similar words: inventor, discoverer, artificer
Definition: someone who is the first to think of or make something
Synonyms: demesne, acres, estate, land, landed estate
Definition: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Usage: the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Similar words: immovable, real estate, real property, realty
Definition: property consisting of houses and land
Synonyms: land
Definition: the land on which real estate is located
Usage: he built the house on land leased from the city
Similar words: immovable, real estate, real property, realty
Definition: property consisting of houses and land
Synonyms: land, kingdom, realm
Definition: a domain in which something is dominant
Usage: the untroubled kingdom of reason; a land of make-believe; the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
Similar words: orbit, field, area, arena, sphere, domain
Definition: a particular environment or walk of life
Usage: his social sphere is limited; it was a closed area of employment; he's out of my orbit
Definition: bring into a different state
Usage: this may land you in jail
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Definition: reach or come to rest
Usage: The bird landed on the highest branch; The plane landed in Istanbul
Similar words: come, arrive, get
Definition: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
Usage: She arrived home at 7 o'clock; She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight
Synonyms: bring down, land, put down
Definition: cause to come to the ground
Usage: the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
Similar words: come, arrive, get
Definition: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
Usage: She arrived home at 7 o'clock; She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight
Synonyms: shore, set ashore, land
Definition: arrive on shore
Usage: The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
Similar words: come, arrive, get
Definition: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
Usage: She arrived home at 7 o'clock; She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight
Synonyms: land
Definition: bring ashore
Usage: The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
Similar words: bring, convey, take
Definition: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
Usage: Bring me the box from the other room; Take these letters to the boss; This brings me to the main point
Synonyms: land
Definition: deliver (a blow)
Usage: He landed several blows on his opponent's head
Similar words: deliver, drive home
Definition: carry out or perform
Usage: deliver an attack, deliver a blow; The boxer drove home a solid left